The driver stopped to water, the hospitable landlord, whose familiar nickname was "Bun," having provided a pail and cut a hole through the ice of the lake for the accommodation of the drivers.

This nickname is gall and wormwood to Gertrude, but I can't quite hold with her whims on the subject of names.

The nickname is the idiom of nomenclature.

The lilies of the valley are her tears, and a German nickname for the lungwort is "Our Lady's milk-wort."

She wore a Panama hat, and after mounting the platform she removed it, tossed it to a friend in the crowd, whose nickname was "Oregon," with the remark, "Adios amigo."

A Gloucestershire nickname for the Plantago media is fire-leaves, and the hearts'-ease has been honoured with all sorts of romantic names, such as "kiss me behind the garden gate;" and "none so pretty" is one of the popular names of the saxifrage.

Formerly a species of primula was known as "lady's candlestick," and a Wiltshire nickname for the common convolvulus is "lady's nightcap," Canterbury bells in some places supplying this need.

What a snare a decently-good nickname is!

It is also called by the Tartars "Barometz," and a Chinese nickname is "Rufous dog."